Dane Lloyd faces first scandal with 'feminize' comments

Dane Lloyd, the newly minted Conservative Party of Canada candidate for Sturgeon River — Parkland has found himself in the midst of a political scandal less than three weeks before Election Day.

Lloyd, who was nominated as the Conservative candidate to replace out-going Rona Ambrose in an Oct. 23 byelection, has earned himself the ire of many Canadians for comments he posted on Facebook in March of 2009, wherein he referred to feminists as “feminazis.”

On a post made to a Facebook group called Women’s Studies closed at Guelph? That’s still BULLSHIT, Lloyd wrote:

“I’ll probably get assasinated (sic) by the Feminazi’s for saying that cutting this program is a good thing, saves a lot of wasted money on a useless program. Way to go Guelph way to be politically incorrect.”

The controversy first came to light after reports published by CTV News’ Ottawa News Bureau producer Rachel Aiello and Senior Political Correspondent Glen McGregor on Oct. 4.

In interviews with CTV News, Lloyd said he didn’t feel that the past comments would negatively impact his candidacy, but that in retrospect, it’s not a term he would use today.

New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate for Sturgeon River — Parkland, Shawna Gawreluck, also weighed in on Lloyd’s comments regarding feminism and women’s studies, saying that she wanted to see concrete evidence of his changed viewpoints.

“I’m aware that he apologized for the statement and removed both that and an additional statement that he had made in the past. What I question, is that he claims that’s he’s changed his views and I would argue that he’s surrounded himself with people who appear to hold the same views,” she said.